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ArtistA stand of bare oak trees with a thick growth of bluebell flowers covering the ground beneath them, a medieval stone wall forms the right border, painted in the style of Raphael Kirchner, art nouveau
Third in my series inspired by the months of the French Republican Calendar. Floréal is the second spring month, running from about the 20th of April to 19th of May. Since Floréal is named for the flowers of springtime, I went into this thinking I would recreate one of the glorious red poppy fields I saw in France as a teenager. But that was high summer. So I created picture that is truer to the springtime based on flowers one finds in the Loire Valley, namely bluebells blooming en masse before the oaks leafs out. The artistic style that inspired me was Raphael Kirchner's work for Puck Magazine--namely "Spring," from 1916.
